Integrated spatial fire and forest management planning

Author:

Acuna Mauricio A.1234,Palma Cristian D.1234,Cui Wenbin1234,Martell David L.1234,Weintraub Andres1234

Affiliation:

1. CRC for Forestry, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 12, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia.

2. Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.

3. Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3B3, Canada.

4. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, P.O. Box 2777, Santiago, Chile.

Abstract

Forest management planners usually treat potential fire loss estimates as exogenous parameters in their timber production planning processes. When they do so, they do not account for the fact that forest access road construction, timber harvesting, and silvicultural activities can alter a landscape’s vegetation or fuel composition, and they ignore the possibility that such activities may influence future fire losses. We develop an integrated fire and forest management planning methodology that accounts for and exploits such interactions. Our methodology is based on fire occurrence, suppression, and spread models, a fire protection value model that identifies crucial stands, the harvesting of which can have a significant influence on the spread of fires across the landscape, and a spatially explicit timber harvest scheduling model. We illustrate its use by applying it to a forest management unit in the boreal forest region of the province of Alberta in western Canada. We found that for our study area, integrated fire – forest management planning based on our methodology could result in an 8.1% increase in net present value when compared with traditional planning in which fire loss is treated as an exogenous factor.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

Ecology,Forestry,Global and Planetary Change

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